It's a great feat but he wasn't even close to being the last: there have been three at Sussex since him and two at Brighton - (although Joe Gatting is included twice).
But, off the top of my head, I can think of ten others (there are probably a lot more) who have played first-class cricket and...
I think it's because many people here have an antipathy to the idea that football was invented in 1992 and there was nothing before that. For someone to come on an Albion board and profess to having no interest in the history of the Albion is strange to them.
I didn't see Denis play for the...